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The PJs - The situation comedy THE
PJs/FOX/1999 was the first black animated puppet series to air on
primetime television.
The PJs plots played out within the mythical Hilton Jacobs inner city housing
project (aka "PJs") where the opinionated but
good-natured building superintendent Thurgood Stubbs, (voice of Eddie Murphy) contended with his
saintly wife, Muriel (voice of Loretta Divine) and a bevy of
misfit tenants.
The other cast of characters included:
- the senior Mrs. Avery who hates Thurgood
- Haiti Lady who performs voodoo curses on anything/body
- Jimmy Ho, Thurgood's brother-in-law, a Korean who'd
rather be black
- Smokey the neighborhood druggie
- Sanchez, Thurgood's drinking buddy who speaks with the aid
of a voice box.
Called "Fat Albert for grown ups," THE PJs featured racy ghetto
humor as well as sophisticated foamation puppet techniques created
by Will "Claymation" Vinton (of California Raisins fame).
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